Alfred
J. Freddoso is John and Jean Oesterle Chair of Thomistic
Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He joined
the Notre Dame faculty in 1979 from Brown University, where
he held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1977 to 1979.
He received his bachelor’s degree from St. John Vianney
Seminary in Buffalo, New York and his doctoral degree from
the University of Notre Dame. During his time at Notre
Dame, he has served as his department’s Director of Graduate
Studies and is currently its Director of Undergraduate Studies.

A
specialist in metaphysics and ethics within the Catholic
intellectual tradition, as well as in various aspects of
the relation of faith and reason, Professor Freddoso is
best known for his translations of Latin Catholic thinkers,
including William of Ockham, Luis de Molina, and Francisco
Suarez, which have been supported by over $100,000 in grants
from the National Endowment for the Humanites. He
has published seven books and numerous scholarly articles.
His latest major scholarly project is to produce a new translation
of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae.

·Review of The Cambridge History of Later Medieval
Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration
of Scholasticism, 1100‑1600, edited by Norman Kretzmann,
Anthony Kenny and Jan Pinborg (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 1982), Journal of Philosophy 81 (1984): 150‑156.